These essays are written in sequence and build on each other. Read the preceding essay here.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
— KJV, Matt 7:12
do ye even so to them:
for this is the law and the prophets.
Man sows “seed” through his free will, and the seed is cultivated and nourished to “harvest” (a material result) through the Power of God’s perfect Laws. The nature of the fruit will obviously depend on the nature of the seed.
Therefore many things we experience in daily life are the harvest of earlier “seedings” by way of our thoughts, words, and actions. This is why the “Golden Rule” offered by The Word is so fundamental.
Our physical brains are not aware of the development process and all the factors influencing a particular outcome, because these are spiritual (invisible). Therefore we may interpret certain physical/material happenings as imperfect or unjust.
We must have unshakeable faith in God’s Perfection and Justice, because it simply cannot be otherwise. We must also have the intellectual humility to accept that we may not know all the facts.
Irrespective of our limitations and ignorance, the fact of His Perfection remains an unfailing guide in interpreting The Word and happenings in our lives.
That is: we are unlikely to make mistakes in interpretation of The Word if we always start our researches with the fact that God is Perfect.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
— Matt 5:17-18
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you,
Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled.
We have explored the fact that it is impossible that God would break His own Laws.
Everything that He did before is perfect, every new thing that emanates from Him is perfect, and therefore the new will always align perfectly with the old.
The problem is that our earthly understanding is sometimes too childish or superficial to see the alignment. We saw this when we explored the Jewish interpretations of the law during Christ’s time on earth.
But how about miracles? Isn’t a miracle like an “override” of the Laws of Creation i.e. a random action, like an earthly ruler issuing a decree? Isn’t this evidence of God breaking His Laws?
Firstly: what constitutes “breaking the law” to a particular person is a function of that person’s understanding of the law. A policeman with a very limited or rigid understanding of a certain law is likely to make many wrong arrests…
The Jews at the time of Christ had limited understanding of the law, and that made them wrongly accuse Christ of breaking the Law on several occasions.
In more recent history, there was a time that certain people believed that airplanes are impossible, arguing that such an invention would amount to man “breaking” the laws of gravity.
This only indicates that such people had a superficial understanding of the laws of gravity.
The laws of gravity indicate that there is a force of attraction between any two physical objects (e.g. the earth and an airplane), and this force can be calculated. Therefore if you want to overcome the force, you need to apply a greater force in the opposite direction.
In doing this in the case of the airplane we are not “breaking” the law of gravity; we are obeying it. We are understanding it properly and adapting to it.
Our opinions on God’s Laws are often similar to the superficial man’s views on gravity. We have a limited and rigid view of God’s Laws and His Creation, and we have similarly narrow expectations of what is possible.
Our surprise at what call “miracles” is a function of our limited appreciation of The Word. Our viewing miracles as “random” actions is a function of our limited appreciation of God’s Perfect Laws, which is elaborated in The Word.
The combination of all this has led us to have a very limited understanding of the infinite possibilities in God’s miraculous Creation.
We shall elaborate further in the next essay.
Today’s Resolution
- We will not separate God’s Perfection from His Laws.
- We will meditate on God’s Laws as the manifestation of His Power, not as a “limitation” on Him.
The Word, (Re)Discovered 